WALLACE

Wallace wrote a controversial article in the Daily Mail in 1926 entitled The Canker In Our Midst about paedophilia and the show business world. Describing how some show business people unwittingly leave their children vulnerable to predators, it linked paedophilia with homosexuality and outraged many of his colleagues, publishing associates, and business friends including theatre mogul Gerald du Maurier. Biographer Margaret Lane describes it as an intolerant, blustering, kick-the-blighters-down-the-stairs type of essay, even by the standards of the day.